<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12815]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd make the comparison to the public's attitude about the Iraq war. They are now disenchanted, but it took three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38656]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd make the comparison to the public's attitude about the Iraq war. They are now disenchanted, but it took three years of bad news to get them there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly on human rights law, others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39540]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly on human rights law, others concentrate on practical skills such as campaigning and lobbying. That's very valuable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, ... I knew it was going to be close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a journey...not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinksmoney will help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34548]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53582]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the gods are dead except the god of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't always connect ourselves with our history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements Educate the eye and lip With one's refreshing innocence, The other's claim to scholarship. The serpent's knowledge of the world Learn, and the dove's more naïve charm; Whether your ringlets should be curled, And why he likes his claret warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader follows in front ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader follows in front]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2906]]></link><description><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know the full story but we'll be in touch with him as soon as possible. We'll keep our fingers crossed it's not too serious. Knowing Harry he'll do everything he can to get fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shouldn't take more than 18 months to sell off the condos. We don't kick tenants out. We let them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shouldn't take more than 18 months to sell off the condos. We don't kick tenants out. We let them stay until their lease expires. We try our hardest not to upset people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saints need sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saints need sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55748]]></link><description><![CDATA[These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55748</guid></item></channel></rss>